Self-Help Simplified!: Insights on Maximizing the Benefits of Self-Help Books
About this audiobook
Wondering why your self-help books haven’t helped you yet?
The self-help industry thrives on the notion that you’re perpetually one book away from a breakthrough. But do you need to meditate, or should you be filling out spreadsheets about your life goals? Why hasn't your collection of self-help books made you a billionaire or brought you to nirvana yet? If you're struggling to make sense of the misleading world of self-help, you're not alone. This guide will be your trusty canine companion in linguistic form, leading you past the self-help highway’s countless potholes, contradictory dead ends, and questionable roadside attractions. And you won’t even need a pooper scooper.
In Self-Help Simplified!, you'll learn:
- Why most self-help books don't work and how to avoid the banana peels.
- How to convert those skeptical grinches of self-help.
- Why trusting online reviews can be like going all-in at roulette.
- Tips on finding your ideal format, time, and method of learning.
- How to curate a lean but effective library.
- Techniques for more effective reading, retention, and application.
- How to mix and match philosophies without ending up with an opera sung in five different languages, none of which you understand.
This is not a book about how to change your life. Rather, it's a book about how to make the most of other books that promise to change your life. We’ll teach you how to extract more from your readings and become an active curator of your own development.
What are you waiting for, a shortcut to self-improvement? If so, this is it. Start reading today!
About the author
Theo Brighton might tell you he's a Renaissance man reborn, if you could peel him away from his latest existential musing long enough to chat. Sans the flamboyant tights and without a Medici in sight to foot his bills, he still manages a life that's a curious blend of the academic and the quixotic. Having escaped the hallowed halls of Johns Hopkins with his noggin crammed to the rafters, he's self-appointed himself as the neighborhood philosopher. You'll often catch him, chin in hand, pondering over life's great mysteries, such as why his neighbors appear to exist on air and sunlight alone, never burdened with something as mundane as bringing in groceries.
By night, Theo morphs into a culinary conjurer, whipping up dishes that might only be deemed 'gourmet' through a very generous lens. His soul dances to the lofty cadences of classical music, while he feigns a deep understanding of the mechanical ballet that is internal combustion and the arcane art of manual transmissions. Amidst this eclectic tapestry of interests, he finds true joy in the digital battlegrounds of video games, where he cherishes the victories over his young daughter—fully aware that these triumphs are on borrowed time.
